"I work as a research technician at KU, and have had more than one occasion
to realize how unsupportive and suspicious the KS legislature is of higher
education.  This said, the recent informational request on the part of the
legislature cannot be interpreted as a faculty distraction.  This is an
inquery into how to repress a minority group.  This is an attack on a
certain 'type' of person on the campuses of Kansas' universties.

It is essential to recognize and decry the principle behind this
informational request, because the request when sufficiently rebuffed is
only insulting.  But if actions such as this are  successful, they  could
be the first in a ground-swell of anti-gay initiatives intended to squelch
our rights as citizens.  We must remember that these kinds of actions are
not only threats to academic freedom, but potential threats to our very
safety."